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GAS STOVE Filed Jan. 20, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 WW- f IHHI i li V V. I 4

UNITED STATES PATNT OFFICE GAS STOVE Lewis Moore and Isaiah S. Holloway, Joliet, Ill., assignors to Moore Brothers Company, Joliet, Ill., a corporation of Illinois Application January 20, 1932, Serial No. 587,726

1 Claim. (Cl. 126-37) This invention relates to stoves and has more front, Where in accordance With the preferred particular reference to ranges provided for cookembodiment of the invention they merge into a ing. While the invention will hereinafter be flat front part, indicated generally by reference described as embodied in a gas cook stove, it will character 23. This central fiat front portion in 5`L be readily apprecated that numerous other feathe present instance comprises a broiler drawer tures are capable of valuable and advantageous or slide 24, the oven door 25, and the burner valve use in stoves of other character and employing panel 26. The burner top generally indicated heat otherwise generated as from kerosene, elecat 21 is arranged above the burner box of Which tric units, etc. the panel 26 provides the front wall.

One of the principal objects of this invention A table top 28 is pvoted along the rear of the 10 is to provide mechanical features of stove constove and is adapted to be arranged in the elestruction which may be employed to contribute Vated DOSitOn indicated in Fg. 2 to permit cookto the production of a stove of improved appearing upon the stove top, or to be swung down as ance. In connection with this object of the indicated in Fig. 1 to serve as a table top Of uninvention it is mentioned that it is desired to brOken Superficial area. 15 produce a stove all of the operating portions of At each Side of the portion of the stove conwhich, as for example the burners, burner tops, taining the burner box, the oven and the broiler heat controls, ete., may be protected and hidden Compartment, the combined end and front Wang When the stove is not employed for cooking. are provided With doors 29 and 3l, which are Another important object of the invention is hinged along vertical pivotal axes 32 and provide 20 the provision of a stove of this character which aCCGSS 110 Side COmpartments of the stove indi- When not in use may have the appearance of cated respectively by reference character 34 an attractive and symmetrically designed cabi- (Fig- 3)- net with a flat table top of unbroken superficial Ah OVeh broiler burner Control S preferably area arranged Within the right hand compartment 25v Another important object of the invention is 34. This control comprises a thermostatic Valve the provision of a stove having door and other 43 adapted '00 be Set by a' handle 44. A main constructions of sturdy and durable construction, Shut Ofi Valve 45 S provided, and DpeS 46 and the hinges of which Will be hidden from casual ll lead d-OWII fI'Om the Valves 43 and 45 to adobservation. Jacent the broiler burner. 48 indicates the mix- 30 Numerous other objects and advantages of the eh Of the broiler burner arranged through a invention will be apparent as it is better under- Sull'lable Opening thrOU-gh the adiacent Partition stood from the following description, which, 49 1h the StOVe- When taken in connection with the accompanying The table top 23 S plvoted elOng the liOD Of drawngs, illustrates a preferred embodiment the flal" real' Wall Of the StOVe and is adapted 35 thereof to' be supported in vertical raised positicn. The Referring to the drawings,- table top hrafera'hly '-C0m'l31`SeS a body sheet Figure 1 is a perspectve View of the stove folded about ts free edges as indicated at 8 embodyng my present invention; to fit over the fixed top of the stove When the Fig. 2 is a simiar view of the top of the stove, tOPS 10We1'ed- The table top is provided with 40 showing the table top elevated to expose the grill a nght ahgle fiahge 82 at tS hnge edge, and Work of the burner top; angular members 83 are secured at 84 to the Fig' 3 is a partial perspecve View of the stove, flange 82, and are pivoted at 85 in brackets 86, Showing a compartment door m open poston to bolted at 81 to the fixed top of the stove. The expose the thermostatic and Valve controls for brackets 85 are arranged beneath the top of 45 the oven burners; the stove and extend rearwardly and through Fig. 4 is an enlarged partial detail showing the Opemhgs 8.3 1h the back Wall 2' Of the stove. counter balance for the stove table top; and A md 89 15 plvotally ehgaged at 9| 111 an arm Fig. 5 is a partial sectional view through the 92 Which extends dOWhWa'dly and nWaI'dly *o free edge of the stove table top, showing its confrom hear each end Of the fiange 32 Of the movnection to the brace members. able stove top- Each md 89 DaSSeS tllrollgh an The stove shown On the drawings and emaperture 93 in a lug 9 which extends downbodying the present invention comprises a body Wal'dly fI'Om the flXed SSOVG 'COD and beyOnd the having afiat back Wall 2I and side walls 22 curved lllg 94 a Spring 95 embraCeS the rOd and bears from the ends of the back wall around to the against a Washer 96 held on the end of the rod 55 by a nut 91. The spring 95 serves to counter balance the movable -stove top in its movement from closed to open'position. V

kA brace member 98 is provided at each sideV of the stove and has one end 99 formed into a hook V deposed through an opening IM Vappropriately arranged in the fixed stove top. The'other end o of the brace rod 99 isV hooked into a recess |02 in a small castingV l03 arranged upon the front or underside of the movable table top and held in place by a screW 104 extending through the Casting and the'table Vtop and into a fiatbutton 105. V

' It will be manifested that the'construction of allof the parts is such that they may beV i'eadily employed in association with each other to provide a stove of the attractive appearance shown upon the drawings, and that individually the several parts and features contribute to the provision of the stove of convenient and easy operation. V

It is thought that the invention and many of its attendant advantages Will be "understood from the foregoing description, and it will be apparent that various changes maygbe made in the form, Construction and arrangement of the parts Without departing from the spirit and scope -of the invention or sacrificing all of its material advantages, the form hereinbefore described being merely a preferred embodiment thereof.

We claim:

In a stove having a sheet metal body provided with top and bottom frame portions and divided into Central oven and broiler compart-V ments and an upper burner compartment provided With a burner top, and side compartments disposed one on each sidef of said first mentioned' 1'0 compartments, a table top member hingedly an'aperture therein, a rod having one end pivl 1 ota11y connected with said ear and extending forwardly through the apertureV in saidbracketV member, an abutment carried by the forward end of said rod, and a spring interposed between said abutment and said bracket member for connected to said top frame portion adjacent to' i itsk rear edge for vertical swinging movement,

yieldably opposing the downward swinging 25 movement of said table top.

LEWIS MOORE. ISAIAH S. I-IOLLOWAY. 

